Nightshift/sleeping
22 June 2009, 02:30 PM
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Nightshift/sleeping
Who else does nightshift and finds it really difficult to sleep in the day?
It's not that I am disturbed or anything, but after around 5 hrs I get up for the toilet and that's it. I lay in bed, wide eyed and the cogs start ticking.
I just can't get back to sleep.
Around 5 am I am fecking bagage at work.
It's not that I am disturbed or anything, but after around 5 hrs I get up for the toilet and that's it. I lay in bed, wide eyed and the cogs start ticking.
I just can't get back to sleep.
Around 5 am I am fecking bagage at work.
22 June 2009, 04:53 PM
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22 June 2009, 05:55 PM
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I worked nights at my warehouse job for the last 3 1/2 years I worked there.
Would be 10-6am, get to bed for about 8am, then up at 4ish if I could sleep. I went through stages where I didn't ever wanna get up, then stages of waking after 4-5 hours. Used to really **** me off going and doing a mega physical job and being physically knackered after 3-4 hours. If it happened again, I would just get 2-3 hours before going at 9.45pm back to work.
Glad I'm not there anymore, but may have to work 6-2 2-10 at Corus in a couple years... prefer to work one shift, ie nights over the above though.
Helps is you're naturally a little nocturnal, I am as I love summer at 4am seeing the sun come up, then going to bed. It's the DJ in me
(no drugs required either).
Would be 10-6am, get to bed for about 8am, then up at 4ish if I could sleep. I went through stages where I didn't ever wanna get up, then stages of waking after 4-5 hours. Used to really **** me off going and doing a mega physical job and being physically knackered after 3-4 hours. If it happened again, I would just get 2-3 hours before going at 9.45pm back to work.
Glad I'm not there anymore, but may have to work 6-2 2-10 at Corus in a couple years... prefer to work one shift, ie nights over the above though.
Helps is you're naturally a little nocturnal, I am as I love summer at 4am seeing the sun come up, then going to bed. It's the DJ in me
(no drugs required either).
22 June 2009, 07:19 PM
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Ive been on nights for 10 weeks and I hate it. If I work my week with all shifts together I can just about get a decent sleep each day but if I have a one day break I sleep a couple of hours during the day then have a full night but then this leaves me with 24 hours gap before my next sleep!!!
22 June 2009, 07:34 PM
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I don't mind my shifts - two earlies, two afternoons and then two nights. I just make sure I do only one hour of overtime on the second night shift as it counts as four hours doublre time 
That makes up for losing sleep
That makes up for losing sleep
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22 June 2009, 07:52 PM
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Have done nights in the past .Used to work four days on ,four off ,four nights on four off.Messed my head up .
Then did nights Sun to Thurs for 2 years ,which did not suit either .By the time I got up on Friday lunch time I felt drunk and exhausted .(even though I had not had a drop ).I cant describe it any other way ,I just did not sleep during the week and by Friday I think the sleep deprevasion got me .
I would get home at 2 or 3 in the morning ,then be up at 7-30 ish getting the kids to school .I would not be able to go back to bed ,and would only have work on my mind for the rest of the day ,phonecalls etc .
Got the chance to change roles in the company and took it .
Would not go back to nights .
Then did nights Sun to Thurs for 2 years ,which did not suit either .By the time I got up on Friday lunch time I felt drunk and exhausted .(even though I had not had a drop ).I cant describe it any other way ,I just did not sleep during the week and by Friday I think the sleep deprevasion got me .
I would get home at 2 or 3 in the morning ,then be up at 7-30 ish getting the kids to school .I would not be able to go back to bed ,and would only have work on my mind for the rest of the day ,phonecalls etc .
Got the chance to change roles in the company and took it .
Would not go back to nights .
22 June 2009, 08:20 PM
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do 12hr nights 3/4 or 7, perhaps more at a time - dont really have a problem sleeping just leave my bedroom window open all night so its cold in a morning, shut blinds and away you go, tend to sleep atleast 6 hours
22 June 2009, 09:35 PM
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I just couldn't hack nights. Did a physical job that needed little mental effort....
Always been nocturnal, but after half an hour's kip, I'd wake up around 10 Am., and that was it. PS2, then MTB, then TV, then eat my tea around 6 PM and have a two hour cat-nap...
By Friday I was out of my tree, depressed, hallucinating, mentally exhausted.
I hated driving home at 6:30 AM on a Saturday morning.
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22 June 2009, 09:45 PM
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you could try this .. when i did 6-2 a lot of the night shift lads went home in real dark sunglasses regardless of weather then had blackout curtains . eat breakfast before going to bed a full stomach helps you sleep . as for the glasses i asked and was told it fools your body into thinking its still night time
22 June 2009, 10:44 PM
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I'm honestly not that bothered fella, as I've worked all three shifts before. Prefer the same hours every week, so if permanent nights came up, would maybe go for that over 6-2, 2-10.
Think you have to be over 18 as you say to work shifts, but will find out in due course. Just glad I have a second chance, but this threads not about me
Think you have to be over 18 as you say to work shifts, but will find out in due course. Just glad I have a second chance, but this threads not about me
23 June 2009, 12:24 AM
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I work 6am-2pm, then 8pm - 6am (four nights), then 2pm-10pm.......and keep going like that.
Can I **** get in to a sleeping pattern!! I hate 6-2 as I hate getting up early. 2-10 isn't too bad. I like nights the best due to who I work with, and I only do 4 of them.
Can I **** get in to a sleeping pattern!! I hate 6-2 as I hate getting up early. 2-10 isn't too bad. I like nights the best due to who I work with, and I only do 4 of them.
23 June 2009, 02:32 AM
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Black out curtains closed 247.. I used to have them taped to the walls .. the room never got warm because if it, even on hot days..
I would be work 16 nights in a row 12 hours a night, come home cover my self in talc to absorb the sweat and go to bed.. up shower out .. no time to eat or talk or anything..
Parents would change my bed almost daily for me..
I hated it .. did it for 6 years
I would be work 16 nights in a row 12 hours a night, come home cover my self in talc to absorb the sweat and go to bed.. up shower out .. no time to eat or talk or anything..
Parents would change my bed almost daily for me..
I hated it .. did it for 6 years
23 June 2009, 09:31 AM
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Half you ****** should try building Nissan Micras while on nightshift 
hardest job i have ever done, especially when you hit the "wall"
my wall was around 3.30am, i once got told off for falling asleep while standing up ??
glad i don't have to do that crap any more, it was a total long term life wrecker, after doing it for 3 years, and then stopping, i went from being a lad who never really needed much sleep (before doing nights), to somebody who needs 8 hours every night, and must never ever be woken up, or i get crazy angry
even now, nearly 6 years later, i have this bizzare thing, where by if i am woken up during the night by the missus, i will wake up at that exact time the following few nights until my body gets back into a regular sleeping pattern
almost like my body assuming that i have woken up because its a change of shift pattern, and i must get up at this time for the next few days
pro-plus and energy drinks to beat the wall at 3.30am, nytol tablets, wanking and a glass of milk at 8am to get to kip, my mind is/was broken
should try building Nissan Micras while on nightshift hardest job i have ever done, especially when you hit the "wall"
my wall was around 3.30am, i once got told off for falling asleep while standing up ??
glad i don't have to do that crap any more, it was a total long term life wrecker, after doing it for 3 years, and then stopping, i went from being a lad who never really needed much sleep (before doing nights), to somebody who needs 8 hours every night, and must never ever be woken up, or i get crazy angry
even now, nearly 6 years later, i have this bizzare thing, where by if i am woken up during the night by the missus, i will wake up at that exact time the following few nights until my body gets back into a regular sleeping pattern
almost like my body assuming that i have woken up because its a change of shift pattern, and i must get up at this time for the next few days
pro-plus and energy drinks to beat the wall at 3.30am, nytol tablets, wanking and a glass of milk at 8am to get to kip, my mind is/was broken
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23 June 2009, 10:42 AM
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Half you ****** should try building Nissan Micras while on nightshift
hardest job i have ever done, especially when you hit the "wall"
my wall was around 3.30am, i once got told off for falling asleep while standing up ??
glad i don't have to do that crap any more, it was a total long term life wrecker, after doing it for 3 years, and then stopping, i went from being a lad who never really needed much sleep (before doing nights), to somebody who needs 8 hours every night, and must never ever be woken up, or i get crazy angry
even now, nearly 6 years later, i have this bizzare thing, where by if i am woken up during the night by the missus, i will wake up at that exact time the following few nights until my body gets back into a regular sleeping pattern
almost like my body assuming that i have woken up because its a change of shift pattern, and i must get up at this time for the next few days
pro-plus and energy drinks to beat the wall at 3.30am, nytol tablets, wanking and a glass of milk at 8am to get to kip, my mind is/was broken
should try building Nissan Micras while on nightshift hardest job i have ever done, especially when you hit the "wall"
my wall was around 3.30am, i once got told off for falling asleep while standing up ??
glad i don't have to do that crap any more, it was a total long term life wrecker, after doing it for 3 years, and then stopping, i went from being a lad who never really needed much sleep (before doing nights), to somebody who needs 8 hours every night, and must never ever be woken up, or i get crazy angry
even now, nearly 6 years later, i have this bizzare thing, where by if i am woken up during the night by the missus, i will wake up at that exact time the following few nights until my body gets back into a regular sleeping pattern
almost like my body assuming that i have woken up because its a change of shift pattern, and i must get up at this time for the next few days
pro-plus and energy drinks to beat the wall at 3.30am, nytol tablets, wanking and a glass of milk at 8am to get to kip, my mind is/was broken